Dementia Joe Biden Gives Rambling – at Times Incoherent – Twelve Minute Presser at Shanksville 9/11 Event; Trashes US And Trump, “Never Lived Up to” Founding Idea
the gateway pundit ^ | September 12, 2021 | Kristinn Taylor
Joe Biden did not make a speech today to mark the twentieth anniversary of the September 11 Islamist terror attack on the United States. But he did visit the sites of the three hijacked plane attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as well as Shanksville, Pennsylvania where a fourth hijacked plane was crashed by the terrorists after the passengers revolted and fought back.
Biden stopped to speak with reporters at Shanksville and gave rambling, at times incoherent remarks for twelve minutes while fielding a handful of softball questions. At one point Biden trashed America, accusing the U.S. of having never lived up to her founding idea in the Declaration of Independence and threw in a dig at President Trump:
You’ve heard me say it a thousand times: This is the most unique country in the whole damn world. We’re an idea. It’s an idea. It’s not based on ethnicity. It’s not based on geography. It’s not based on religion. It’s not based — it’s an idea. It really is. “We hold these truths…” I mean, we never lived up to it, but we’ve never walked away from it, except the last — previous four years.”
Biden attacked Trump again–not by name–by bringing up Trump’s recent comment he’d beat Biden in the boxing ring. (Trump was referring to a campaign comment by Biden that he want to take Trump “behind the gym.” nd so, you know, it would be inappropriate for me to tell you the number of serious Republicans in the past, and a few that are still around, who call me and tell me, “What can I do to help?” Because they get it too. They may not agree with everything I say, but this idea that, you know, “What do you want to do with Biden?” “I want to box him.” I mean — you know. I should be so lucky. You know what I mean?
But it is — the kinds of things — or, you know, the stuff that’s coming out of Florida, the stuff that’s coming out of — you know, “If Robert E. Lee had been in Afghanistan, we would have won.”
Anyway, I’m telling you too much.
Biden also acknowledged his cratering poll numbers but said his “package” was more popular:
“You know, if you take a look at the polling data, it is down — as my numbers have dropped — you’ve seen that my package is overwhelmingly popular. Overwhelmingly popular. And so that’s why you’re going to see — and I get it — a lot more direct attacks on me, not what I’m for. And that’s — I’m a big boy. I’ve been doing this a long time.”
Biden fielded a softball on his Afghanistan debacle and rambled, needing an aide’s help at one point, before ending with a bizarre comment on how hard reporters’ jobs are and that he wouldn’t want to do their job. Biden closed by rambling, “So, anyway, I’m going to do my thing,” and shuffled away with wife Jill rushing to his side.
Q This is the first anniversary with no war in Afghanistan anymore. Do you think this marks a new phase for the country as it experiences this anniversary 20 years later?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think — look, I do. If you read, there was a big article with 16, 17 people. Was it in, um — I guess it was — what was it?
AIDE: Politico.
THE PRESIDENT: Politico. And quoting major players over the last 20 years.
And everybody — every one of them said they’re — look, this was — we didn’t start off this way. If you had told anybody that we were going to spend 300 million bucks a day for 20 years to try to unite the country after we got bin Laden, after al Qaeda was wiped out there — can al Qaeda come back? Yeah. But guess what? It’s already back in other places.
What’s the strategy? Every place where al Qaeda is we’re going to invade and have troops stay there? Come on.
Anyway. So, I just think that — and, again, what people are — as I read it, I’m told, people — 70 percent of the American people think it was time to get out of Afghanistan — spending all of that money.
But the flip of it is, they didn’t like the way we got out. But it’s hard to explain to anybody how else could you get out.
For example, if we were in Tajikistan and we pulled up with a C-130 and said, “We’re going to let, you know, anybody who was involved with being sympathetic to us to get on the plane,” you’d have people hanging in the wheel well. Come on.
So — but you guys got a tough job, and I’m glad I don’t have it.
So, anyway, I’m going to do my thing.
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